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The history of the city of São Paulo runs parallel to the history of Brazil, throughout approximately 470 years of its existence, ... Found by chance in 1964, ...
Founding of São Paulo, 1909 painting by Oscar Pereira da Silva Courtyard of the college, Pátio do Colégio, in the Historic Center of São Paulo. At this location, the city was founded in 1554. The current building is a reconstruction made in the late 20th century, based on the Jesuit college and church that were erected at the site in 1653.
In 1870, it found its most fertile fields: Terra Roxa in northeastern São Paulo state, near Ribeirão Preto, São Carlos and Jaú, where the largest and most productive coffee farms in the world arose.
São Paulo (/ ˌ s aʊ ˈ p aʊ l oʊ /, Portuguese: [sɐ̃w ˈpawlu] ⓘ) is one of the 26 states of the Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Saint Paul of Tarsus.It is located in the Southeast Region and is bordered by the states of Minas Gerais to the north and northeast, Paraná to the south, Rio de Janeiro to the east and Mato Grosso do Sul to the west, in addition to the ...
1720 – São Paulo becomes capital of Captaincy of São Paulo. 1745 – Catholic Diocese of São Paulo established. [4] 1822 – São Paulo becomes part of the Empire of Brazil. [3] 1827 – Faculdade de Direito do Largo de São Francisco, oldest Law School in Brazil, founded. 1831 – São Paulo Municipal Imperial Guard established.
The Historic Center of São Paulo (Portuguese: Centro Histórico de São Paulo), also known as Centro, is a neighborhood in the Central Zone of the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil. It corresponds to the area where the city was founded on January 25, 1554, by the Jesuit priests António Vieira, Joseph of Anchieta and Manuel da Nobrega.
Rescue workers and Brazilian emergency crews said the bodies of most of the victims – 34 males and 28 females – have been moved to Sao Paulo’s police morgue for identification.
Initially, most settled in the current state of São Paulo, where they founded the city of Americana, which was once part of the neighboring city of Santa Bárbara d'Oeste. The descendants of other Confederados would later be found throughout Brazil.